Word: msgr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ceases, as it is ceasing, to be accepted as a sacred text, it will not long survive for its fine writing. It seems to me probable that in a hundred years' time the only Englishmen who know their Bibles will be Catholics. And they will know it in Msgr. Knox's version...
Reader Talbot's complaint should have been directed to Msgr. Knox. Sample passage from The Mass in Slow Motion: "When there are priests in choir, you know, they are supposed to mumble all this part of the Mass to one another while the priest is getting through it at the altar...
...long lifetime, tall, gentle-voiced Msgr. John L. Belford, who at 86 is pastor of Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity, has founded two parishes, built two churches and a convent, enlarged a school, and paid off debts in a manner which astounded his superiors. Other priests have often urged him to put down on paper the methods they had very good reason to respect. In the American Ecclesiastical Review last week, Msgr. Belford finally discussed his fund-raising techniques. Excerpts...
...Denver, Msgr. John R. Mulroy challenged a survey on religious beliefs and attitudes among 788 Protestant and Roman Catholic students at the University of Denver. Said he: "A survey to reveal differences in their attitudes has no validity in the Catholic Church. If students do not believe alike, then they are not Catholics...
Since the war, philosophy has been No. 1 on the undergraduate hit parade (top lecturer: the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen). But C.U.'s most famed department is speech & drama (TIME, July 7, 1947), whose professional-looking amateur theatricals have found a backstairs to Broadway for such productions as Lute Song, The Song of Bernadette and Sing Out, Sweet Land...